How to use Convert PDF to Base64
- 1. Drop the PDF. Encode File mode is ready.
- 2. Copy. Raw Base64 or Data URI.
- 3. Paste into your request body. Compare with your backend’s expected field.
About this tool
Long-tail convert-PDF queries often come from developers wiring JSON document fields. This landing skips Text mode and goes straight to file encode.
JavaScript / Python
Browser: FileReader or arrayBuffer + btoa chunks. Python: `base64.b64encode(Path('a.pdf').read_bytes()).decode()`.
Code examples
Node
Buffer.from("hello").toString("base64");
Buffer.from(b64, "base64").toString("utf8");Browser (UTF-8 safe)
btoa(unescape(encodeURIComponent(text)));
decodeURIComponent(escape(atob(b64)));Python
import base64
base64.b64encode(b"hello").decode() # aGVsbG8=
base64.b64decode("aGVsbG8=").decode()Data URI
const uri = `data:image/png;base64,${b64}`;
// <img src={uri} /> or CSS url('${uri}')